Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Community Music

"According to Ives, poets and singers from the Maritimes, often considered the best lumber camp singers, heavily influenced logging musical traditions."

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… regarded country, bluegrass, and rockabilly songs, including by artists Dick Curless, Lenny Breau, Hal Lone Pine, and Betty Cody."

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… and craftspeople who make instruments, write songs, and make music in the home and community settings."

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Today the Sabbathday Lake Shakers sing about 1,000 songs as part of their active catalog. Shaker music originally concentrated on acapella march…"

Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… from local high schools who performed hit songs from the radio, often lip synching and sometimes singing live."

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… the Longfellow family created and used manuscript song pages to entertain family and guests, including songs popular in the 1750s and early 1800s…"

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Wabanaki songs reaching back 13,000 years are distinct from Franco chansons. Lumberjack work chants and sailor shanties differ from operas sung by…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… in the American South, a blend of English folk songs, Scots-Irish fiddle and dance music, sacred music, and banjo and blues from formerly enslaved…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"The doom-filled trucking song hit #5 on the country Billboard chart in 1965, and Cash Box magazine named Curless the “Most Promising New Male…"

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… Records in New York recorded White performing songs from her youth. She wrote in her diary, "Oh! My records! These new recordings make me happy."

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"Directed by commanders, the drummer songs controlled infantry soldier’s daily activities, from morning Reveille to the Tattoo beat for bedtime."

Music in Maine - HEAR

"… broadcast came from Litchfield, and the first song played on WBLM was The Story in Your Eyes by The Moody Blues."

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… bid her claim..." Goldthwaite wrote other school songs, including one for Portland High School. 'The Purple and White,' Deering High School…"

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"… every concert, every video, and listened to every song. I'd spend countless days and nights studying his mannerisms, wit, voice, and influence."

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… on sharing and teaching Penobscot spiritual songs and dances in our community. During a time when it was illegal to do so, she disguised the events…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"They sang songs, wrote poems, lit firecrackers, pranked one another, and entertained the locals. They played baseball and tug of war, and held…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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